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Cloé St-Hilaire

@closthilaire.bsky.social
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Vanier Scholar | Phd Candidate @ UWaterloo. Critical urban planning, Housing, Financialization, Digital tech | She/her/hers

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Cloé St-Hilaire @closthilaire.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I am so happy to be back in Uppsala for the Common City Conference, a special event that I co-organized with my colleagues from the Housing & Urban Justice Group. We have over 70 in-person participants joining us tomorrow for what is looking to be an exciting event! #CCC2026
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Dan Cohen @dancohen.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New special issue in Geoforum 'Accounting for Space' is now fully published online. It features our introduction and seven articles at the intersection of financial geography and critical accounting scholarship. Topics range from sovereign bonds to timber. www.sciencedirect.com/special-issu...
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Geoforum | Accounting for Space | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Discussions between the fields of critical accounting and critical geography hold great potential in aiding our understanding of the contemporary political economic moment. As the influence of the fin...
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Cloé St-Hilaire @closthilaire.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Interested in presenting at the Common City Conference, happening on the 26-28 of August in Uppsala? There are only a few days left to do so! Make sure to check the 18 awesome sessions we have planned:
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Cloé St-Hilaire @closthilaire.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
For those interested in joining us in Uppsala and present some of your work! The conference welcomes various contribution formats, from mapping methodologies to papers and film-making. Go have a look at the book of sessions to see which fits your work best!
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Cloé St-Hilaire @closthilaire.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
If you wish to apply for a session proposal for the Common City Conference at Uppsala University in August, today is the last day! Details below
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The Housing and Urban Justice Project @hujpuppsala.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
Reminder that this is the last day to apply for a session proposal for our upcoming Commons City Conference in late August! Details are in the post below ⬇️
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Cloé St-Hilaire @closthilaire.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Join us on Jan 27 for our research presentation on above-guideline rent increases and financialization in Ontario organized by the @bshnode.bsky.social
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Cloé St-Hilaire @closthilaire.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Folks, there is only two weeks left to submit your session proposals for the second edition of the Common City Conference organized by the Housing & Urban Justice (Uppsala University) in Uppsala, Sweden, on August 26-28. Send any questions you might have about it my way!
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Cloé St-Hilaire @closthilaire.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Join us on January 27th!
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Cloé St-Hilaire @closthilaire.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Join us for the second Common City Conference in Uppsala, Sweden, August 26-28 2026. The call for sessions is now open. Share widely!
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Ståle Holgersen @holgersen.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
Is construction best left to the capitalist market? No. Let's learn from history and build new non-profit construction companies! 💥 new paper with Maria Wallstam in @housingjournal.bsky.social 💥
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Building beyond profit: the history and potential future of non-profit construction companies
When housing construction slows down due to diminished profit margins while the actual need for housing increases, people might raise the question: is residential construction best left to the capi...
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Mikael Brunila @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
I wrote a comprehensive introduction to basic information theory, with added context from social scientists of the cybernetics movement (Gregory Bateson) & later (Katherine Hayles). It covers everything from bit encoding to comparative metrics like cross-entropy. mikaelbrunila.com/information-...
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From Bits to Embeddings – A Critical Introduction to Information Theory
A comprehensive introduction to classical information theory as conceived by Claude Shannon and its connections to neural networks and large language models today.
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Rob Kitchin @robkitchin.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
New paper on housing data debates that traces arguments in news media between 2010 & 2025 about the number of #vacant dwellings & housing #completions in Ireland & examining the data politics of facts and counter-facts. In @journalurp.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/eprint/6UCGN...
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Data debates in urban development: the data politics of facts and counter-facts
Data relating to urban development are often accepted and used at face value, treated as impartial, objective, incontrovertible facts. However, the validity and veracity of official datasets can be...
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Cloé St-Hilaire @closthilaire.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
If you are interested in data, large language models (LLMs), and historical/critical accounts of technology, go check out @mikaelbrunila.bsky.social's new article out in @bigdatasoc.bsky.social!
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economyandspace.bsky.social @economyandspace.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Economy and Space Vol. 57, No. 7 is now available online! It features articles on a number of topics, from municipal structural adjustment and post-entrepreneurial cities to heritage branding and the geography of financial exclusion. Link and ToC below: journals.sagepub.com/toc/epna/57/...
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Brian Doucet @briandoucet.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Great research by colleagues @closthilaire.bsky.social & Martine August featured in today's @thestar.com about how financialized landlords are raising rents more aggressively than others. Important & timely research. About Toronto but relevant across Canada & beyond. www.thestar.com/real-estate/...
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‘Financial landlords’ more aggressive on raising Toronto rents than other landlords, study finds
Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), asset managers and private equity firms raised rents farther above Toronto’s average rents than chains and individual landlords, the University of Waterloo study...
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Balanced Supply of Housing @bshnode.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
When housing becomes a financial asset, tenants pay the price. Research by Martine August & @closthilaire.bsky.social, BSH researchers, shows how financial firms are driving up rents & evictions in TO. If it wasn't already obvious, it's time to rethink financialized housing policies. buff.ly/Bo14N5s
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Financial firms are driving up rent in Toronto — and targeting the most vulnerable tenants
A new study reveals financial landlords charge the highest rents in Toronto.
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Cloé St-Hilaire @closthilaire.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
New article: Martine August and I's paper on financial landlords and rents in Toronto is out in @economyandspace.bsky.social! We show how financial landlords charge the highest rents, rent premiums, and rent increases out of all types of landlords. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Åse Richard @acerich.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Our paper, ‘Capturing Displacement’ is now available as open access and can be read here 💥 lnkd.in/d2nzWq8G 💥. Many thanks to my colleagues/co-authors Marcus Mohall and Irene Molina, from whom I learned so much, and to the tenants who shared their experiences in meetings and workshops over the years
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michelelancione @michelelancione.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
The Beyond Inhabitation Lab recently hosted Dr Mahmoud Hawari on "Palestine: Settler Colonialism, Archeology, and the Appropriation of Cultural Heritage". The recording of his powerful lecture is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU9p... Check the Lab here: beyondinhabitation.org/blog/
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Mahmoud Hawari - Palestine: Colonialism and Archeology - 15th April 2025 - Beyond Inhabitation Lab
YouTube video by Beyond Inhabitation Lab
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Housing, Theory and Society @housingtheory.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Welcome to submit an abstract to the symposium "The political economy of housing production under late neoliberalism" at UCL, May 2025. We anticipate it will lead to a Special Issue in Housing, Theory and Society. Deadline March 3. The link for submitting an abstract: forms.office.com/e/CMBGJcGGQ4
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Cloé St-Hilaire @closthilaire.bsky.social · 12/03/2024
Attn housing scholars/planners! Andrea Urbina Julio and myself are organizing a Panel on 'Everyday struggles of tenants across geographies' for the 2024 ACSP conference in Seattle. For full details, see our request for abstracts here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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ACSP Panel Session -- Urbina-Julio and St-Hilaire -- Everyday struggles of tenants
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